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Medicines and Medication Safety

At ACT Health, we are committed to safeguarding the health of our community against any adverse effects from prescribed medications. This means that people can take medicines or use health products knowing that they are safe, have been manufactured in a quality-controlled environment to our strict guidelines, and will work.

At ACT Health, we are committed to safeguarding the health of our community against any adverse effects from prescribed medications. This means that people can take medicines or use health products knowing that they are safe, have been manufactured in a quality-controlled environment to our strict guidelines, and will work.

However, medications and medical devices, available via international websites, which have not been subject to Australia’s rigorous testing standards are becoming easier to access. They are not regulated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and we can’t confirm their quality or effectiveness.

We have received reports of people suffering adverse reactions to these products. As such, we strongly advise against purchasing inexpensive medicines on foreign websites.

Australia has several mechanisms available to help protect our health consumers.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is Australia’s regulatory authority for therapeutic goods. It carries out a range of assessment and monitoring activities to ensure that therapeutic goods available in Australia meet high quality standards and will only help Australians towards positive health outcomes.

Almost any product advertising therapeutic claims must be entered in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG) <link> before it can be supplied in Australia.

The Advisory Committee on Medicines (ACM) provides independent medical and scientific advice to the Minister for Health and the TGA on issues relating to the safety, quality and efficacy of medicines supplied in Australia, including pre- and post-market functions.